Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had succeeded in damning him with the faintest of eulogies . |
| 2 | Of course there are individual doctors who are well aware of the mess their profession has got itself into ; but the very fact that they are in a profession , and one which has succeeded in armouring itself against state intervention , makes it hard for them to get their ideas accepted . |
| 3 | Christine made a grab for his gun as it spun away , but only succeeded in pushing it into a console , where its trigger caught on the comer . |
| 4 | He had succeeded in pleasing her in spite of everything that had happened . |
| 5 | The second movement was just ending , and had succeeded in stabilising her to a certain extent . |
| 6 | ‘ As daylight , ’ she snapped , before giving a heavy sigh as she realised that , yet again , the horrid man had succeeded in putting her in the wrong . |
| 7 | Dávila , however , was a bully , a cruel and insecure man whose constant attacks on the Indians succeeded in turning them from ‘ sheep ’ , as Balboa called them , into ‘ fierce lyons ’ . |
| 8 | Now , Armani is Italy 's new Great Dictator but his genius is that , having handed down his basic dictate — that both women and men look their best in unstructured tailoring applied to traditional menswear fabrics — he has succeeded in turning himself into the Great Listener . |
| 9 | I thus made my way as quietly as possible to a position from which I could execute such a march , and clutching my implements firmly about me , succeeded in propelling myself through the doorway and several paces down the corridor before a somewhat astonished Miss Kenton could recover her wits . |
| 10 | She had been determined not to give anything of herself away to him , but he had succeeded in antagonising her to such a pitch that she almost could n't help herself . |
| 11 | Originally rivals , they have succeeded in identifying themselves with one another by means of a love for the same object . |
| 12 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
| 13 | Though earlier Joseph 's brothers had planned to kill him , and had succeeded in selling him into slavery , the story 's final scene in Genesis 50 showed sincere confessions of guilt , moving declarations of love and all fear finally removed . |
| 14 | There are several aspects of the faunal assemblages accumulated by predators that may be considered in identifying them as prey assemblages . |
| 15 | We have lived in Birmingham for 18 months and been totally absorbed in familiarising ourselves with our own local environment , and all I knew of Highgate , Sparkhill , Sparkbrook and Small Heath was where they are on a map . |
| 16 | If you are to get the maximum enjoyment from growing roses , just as much care is needed in choosing one as a hundred , and it is to selecting what to grow — and where to buy — that we now turn . |
| 17 | Unfortunately there is a confounding factor of experience in this : the earlier sign has been learned the more experience one is likely to have had in using it by the time the sign language testing occurs . |
| 18 | And God 's word is used in bringing us to new birth , in bringing us , er to faith in Jesus Christ . |
| 19 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |
| 20 | As events since the early 1970s have shown , many advanced capitalist states have in fact had much less trouble than anticipated in extricating themselves from the provision of collective consumption . |
| 21 | It is very profitable to the place , as also in the number of shipping employed in bringing it to London ’ . |
| 22 | We are justified in using it for a quality of material things only if the quality is like the bodily sensation . |
| 23 | Therefore we are not justified in using it for a quality of material things . |
| 24 | If one supports the view that dogs need a degree of freedom of movement , the opportunity to meet other dogs and to engage in natural behaviour , then this means that responsible owners would be justified in taking them to places where they can be let off the lead and allowed to run loose . |
| 25 | There may in fact be some differences in these time intervals and in other pathogenetic factors between Kock pouches and pelvic pouches , but in view of the general clinical similarities between the RP syndromes in these two forms of pouch ( Table V ) , we have felt justified in combining them for the purposes of our analysis . |
| 26 | I think that people would be justified in rebuking me for deceiving them as to my whereabouts , but that I would no more have actually lied than if I had thrown my voice and said ‘ Cooee ‘ . |
| 27 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 28 | Men frequently fear women 's sexual power and feel justified in blaming them for acts of male violence . |
| 29 | We do , however , need to modify the force of this comment by noting that in Belfast no problem was experienced in obtaining plenty of recordings of sufficient technical quality to be analysable . |
| 30 | Relating these principles to Figures 11.1 and 11.2 , it will be seen that they comprise , despite the problems already encountered in describing them on an ad hoc basis , only a small number of variants . |